Margaret Hodge’s Public Accounts Committee is continuing its excellent work, that is much despised by the tax profession because of the effectiveness of what she
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I noticed an exchange in Parliament yesterday, albeit in written answers, in which Catherine McKinnell MP asked David Gauke MP, the minister she shadows: How many staff he expects to
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The House of Lords has continued to hear evidence on the General Anti-Abuse Rule, the latest hearing being this week. The transcript has not yet been published, but
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HMRC announced new board appointments yesterday. I have no doubt the new people all have merits: nothing I say suggests otherwise. But we now have
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The FT has reported: Hundreds of thousands more wealthy individuals will appear on HM Revenue & Customs’ radar after it doubled its team for tackling
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I have just noted what David Cameron had to say yesterday on tax avoidance by multinational companies. I’m delighted he has said he will tackle
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I was amused by David Gauke’s entry in the Accountancy Age financial power list for 2013, in which I also appear. They said of him:
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I reproduce the following press release from Accountancy Magazine because I think there’s a public benefit from doing so. I was not aware of this: High-earning child benefit recipients, who have until 6
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For the first time ever the Danish tax authorities started publishing information on the taxes paid by all Danish companies today. You can see a sample here.
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